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Author
Publisher
Farrar
Pub. Date
[1965]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
xii, 180 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the era of Rembrandt, Spain has its own great painter, Diego Velázquez. His assistant is Juan, an African slave who becomes an artist himself. Self-taught by watching his master's technique, Juan is torn between the need to keep his secret—for the creation of art is forbidden to slaves—or revealing his own talents.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
NEWBERY COLLECTION. Newbery medal winner, 1990. In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
NEWBERY COLLECTION. Newbery medal winner, 1986. When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay.
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore involving the newly dead, molten wax, twisted promises, Girl Scout cookies, underage driving, lessons from history, typewriting, and countless bloody noses.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Winner of Newbery Award, 1995. After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
10) The bronze bow
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A young Jewish rebel is filled with hatred for the Romans and a desire to avenge his parents' deaths until Jesus teaches him love and understanding of others.
12) The crossover
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
13) Dear Mr. Henshaw
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
NEWBERY COLLECTION. Newbery medal winner, 1984. In his letters to his favorite author, ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his parents' divorce, being the new boy in school, and generally finding his own place in the world.
14) Dicey's song
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1982
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
196 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
NEWBERY COLLECTION. Newbery medal winner, 1983. Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that their new beginnings require love, trust, humor, and courage.
15) Sounder
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Revised Harper Trophy edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
116 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young boy learns the pain of humiliation and anger when his father is given an unjust jail sentence for stealing a ham from a white man. The book traces the sorrow and abiding faith of a poor African-American boy in the nineteenth-century South.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After finding a way to teach the ship's crew members to understand navigation, Nat, a self-taught mathematician and astronomer in eighteenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, writes down his explanations and compiles them into "The American Practical Navigator," also known as the "Sailors' Bible."
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1952
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
NEWBERY COLLECTION. Newbery Medal winner, 1953. An Indian boy who tends llamas in a hidden valley in Peru learns the traditions and secrets of his Inca ancestors.
Winner of Newbery Award, 1953.
19) Kira-kira
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.
20) Sounder
Author
Pub. Date
1969
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
NEWBERY COLLECTION. Winner of Newbery Medal, 1970. A young negro boy learns the pain of humiliation and anger when his father is given an unjust jail sentence for stealing a ham from a white man.